Invitation to Computer Science 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337561916
ISBN 13: 978-1-33756-191-4

Chapter 5 - Exercises - Page 274: 11

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The main advantages of CISC architecture are that the code size is significantly reduced because with just one instruction we can do several powerful operations also because of this the high level code can be much easily translated to machine code. Its disadvantages are that it requires very complex architecture which is difficult and expensive to build, also due to complexity of instruction it requires multiple clock cycles to complete one instruction which reduces the efficiency.
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